Effect of varicocelectomy on detailed sperm morphology parameters: An observational retrospective clinical cohort study.

Although many studies suggest that varicocelectomy leads to improvement in semen parameters and morphology, its clinical efficacy remains controversial. The detailed morphological parameters described in the World Health Organization guidelines are important in terms of showing the effect of microsurgical subinguinal varicocelectomy on morphological changes.An observational, retrospective clinical cohort study was conducted with patients followed up from January 2018 to August 2021.

Relationship between bladder outlet obstruction and prostatic indentation, prostatic urethral length, and bladder-prostatic urethral angle.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between prostatic anatomical factors and pressure flow studies (PFSs).

Methods: The study was designed with 41 patients. PFS was applied to every patient.

The effects of two different antioxidant combinations on sperm parameters.

Background: Studies demonstrate that getting antioxidants in the course of treatment has a positive impact beneficial effect on fertility, especially on the quality of sperm. Because of that reason antioxidants are recommended as a potentially influential treatment for infertility in men. However, it is argued that this treatment is not based on sufficient evidence and has no effect on the rate of healthy pregnancy.

Short-term effects of COVID-19 on semen parameters: A multicenter study of 69 cases.

Objective: COVID-19, which is known to be caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a global health problem that can cause multiorgan damage because of its use of the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor in its pathophysiology. We aimed to investigate whether SARS-CoV-2 had a short-term effect on spermatogenesis, which plays an important role in male reproductive health as it has abundant ACE2 expression in testicular tissue.

Material And Methods: This multicenter study included 69 patients aged 20-45 years, who admitted to our hospitals between April 2020 and October 2020 with a history of a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2 based on the nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swab samples and had recovered from the disease at least three months earlier and who had undergone a spermiogram test in the hospital database within the last year before the onset of disease.

Visceral adiposity index is useful for evaluating obesity effect on erectile dysfunction.

Studies show that erectile dysfunction (ED) is associated with obesity, and it has been shown that the possibility of developing sexual dysfunction in obese men is 30% higher compared to those with normal weight. Obesity is measured using various methods, for example waist circumference (WC) measurement or body mass index (BMI), but recently, visceral adiposity index (VAI) has also been utilised to better assess obesity and metabolic syndrome. In our study, the potential link between VAI and ED was investigated.

Impacts of antibiotic and anti-inflammatory therapies on serum prostate-specific antigen levels in the presence of prostatic inflammation: a prospective randomized controlled trial.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine if antibiotic or anti-inflammatory medications lower serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the presence or absence of inflammation in the prostatic secretions of patients with PSA levels between 2.5 and 10 ng/ml and normal digital rectal examinations (DRE).

Materials And Methods: Patients with PSA levels between 2.

Correlation between upgrading of prostate biopsy and biochemical failure and unfavorable pathology after radical prostatectomy.

Objective: To evaluate whether upgrading of the biopsy after radical prostatectomy (RP) affects disease outcome in terms of unfavorable pathology and biochemical failure.

Patients And Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the records of 174 patients who underwent RP. Prostate biopsy and RP specimen Gleason scores (GSs) and correlative clinical data were recorded, and a multivariate analysis was applied.